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How we're responding

In India

Our local partners are already responding quickly in India, prioritising the most vulnerable.

They're airlifting shelter items and providing food parcels and water filters to those in relief camps and cyclone shelters.

In Bangladesh

Our partners are active on the ground and assessing the situation. We have tarpaulin for shelters and chlorine tablets for safe drinking water ready to be distributed.

We are also responding with cash grants for shelter repair, floor mats, hygiene and dignity kits, and are providing safe drinking water and food.

We can't wait for the situation to get worse. Please donate to the Cyclone Fani Appeal today and help us act now.

Your donations are providing:

Food

Shelter

Hygiene kits

Cyclone Fani: what we know so far

Tens of millions of people are in the cyclone’s path, and more than a million people were evacuated away from the coast in India alone.

Stretches of coastal India and Bangladesh are threatened by storm surges, and heavy rains could cause flooding.

The local authorities have set up around 850 shelters.

The Indian Red Cross is operating 65 shelters in Odisha state, with a capacity of 1,000 to 3,000 people in each. They can withstand winds of 400km/h (248mph) and storm surges of 1.5m.

A total of 59 million people in Bangladesh could be exposed to cyclone wind or a deep depression. Communities are on alert for evacuation orders related to Fani, which has since been downgraded from a 'severe extreme cyclonic storm' to a 'very severe storm'.

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